Tunisia will work in the United Nations and the Arab League to stop Israel's "flagrant aggression" in the Gaza Strip, Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdesslem said during a visit to the coastal enclave on Saturday.

"Israel should understand that many things have changed and that lots of water has run in the Arab river," Abdesslem said as he surveyed the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh reduced to rubble in an overnight air strike.

"[Israel] should realize it no longer has a free hand. It does not have total immunity and is not above international law," he added. "What Israel is doing is not legitimate and is not acceptable at all."

Israel launched a concerted air campaign against the densely populated territory on Wednesday with the stated aim of halting regular rocket fire out of Gaza that has disrupted life across southern Israel.

Palestinian militants have fired hundreds more rockets in the last three days, even targeting the far-away centers of Israeli commerce and government -- Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Abdesslem is the second high-profile visitor to Gaza since the start of the latest wave of violence, with Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil travelling to the territory on Friday.

Their appearance in the enclave reflects ever-stronger Arab solidarity with Gazans and their Islamist leaders following uprisings across the region, which have propelled Islamist-led governments to power in Egypt and Tunisia.

"The Arab League should bear its responsibilities to stop this flagrant aggression on our people in Gaza," Abdesslem said.

Officials in Gaza said 39 Palestinians, half of them civilians including eight children and a pregnant woman, had been killed since Israel began its air strikes. Three Israeli civilians were killed by a rocket on Thursday.

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it has created a problem in Gaza whih did not existed before Israël
and that this problem cannot be solved by destroying the ghetto and its
inhabitants. Cast Lead over and over every few years for how long ?

Israel doesn't have immunity? No kidding. We are not immune to the
hundreds of rockets fired at us. The Pals however are allowed to do
what ever they want? Go IDF. Flush out Hamas once and for all. Then
take out Nasrallah and the cowards that follow him. At that point,
Syria and Iran will have no more proxy army. Syria will hopefully
launch an assault on Israel as well, giving Israel the right to wipe out
the Assad regime once and for all. Iran will soon follow.

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